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For 18 years Seilevel has been helping Fortune 1000 companies figure out what to build and Blue Fish has been helping those same customers build it. The History Seilevel is a business analysis and product management company I founded in 2000. I joined forces with Joy Beatty, and along …
“You don’t tell the market what you are selling, the market tells you what it will buy” – I talk to a lot of people about starting businesses and a lot of them still think that a comprehensive business plan that takes months to develop is a key component to …
In 2000, I worked for a .com during the .com boom. I left my safe, secure job with Schlumberger, the biggest oil services company at the time, to try to make my fortune in the wild wild west of internet companies. After my new company went public, the stock price …
What 5 measures can you use as personal objectives? On the modern analyst forum, Andrea asked the question “I have been asked to come up with 5 personal “Management Business Objectives” for myself in my position as Business Systems Analyst. I need to have them by the end of January …
Minimum viable product: Today I had a coworker come into my office to talk about entrepreneurship and an idea he had for starting a company. His idea was an interesting one related to helping people find the perfect product for them based on products that they already owned (I’m being …
The reality is the term business analyst has junior level connotations in the software industry. The IIBA is working very hard to change this by expanding the scope of business analyst duties but it is an uphill battle. In the marketing world sometimes a term becomes tainted and it is …
In my view, the most challenging projects are those that exist in a large ecosystem or have a tremendous amount of undocumented business rules. Most analysis methods that we have seen define very odd dimensions for analyzing systems. For example, UML defines the diagrams below. Yet how do you bound …
Everyone we work with has a love hate relationship with visio. We love it because our clients all have it so if we produce diagrams in visio they can view and edit them. We hate it because it is a pain in the *ss to use. The other day I …
One of the foundations of the Seilevel methodology is visualization. The goal behind visualization is that they enable you to see patterns and find missing requirements immediately. You might be surprised at the types of things that you can see when you visualize. A friend had a Facebook post about …
As many of you who are familiar with RML know, the models are organized into 3 categories: people, systems and data. People models are models that relate to who is using the system and how they need to use the system to perform their jobs. The top level model is the organizational …
